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New global media channel offers bitesize Jewish wisdom

An ambitious online project, J-TV, is making Jewish education more accessible to the digital generation, writes Jenni Frazer

Jenni Frazer

October 1 2016, 12:01am, The Times

Tara Adlestone, a presenter for J-TV, interviews Simon Johnson, the chief executive of the Jewish Leadership Council

For Jews all over the world the forthcoming weeks of festivals, beginning with Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) tomorrow night and continuing ten days later with Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), form a period of stocktaking — a time to reflect on triumphs and achievements, but also to ask for forgiveness for wrongdoings.

Rosh Hashanah, one of the holiest days in the Jewish calendar, is a day of judgment: Jews believe that it is when God evaluates their good and bad deeds over the past year and decides what the year ahead should have in store for them.

One of those who will surely be judged favourably is Oliver Anisfeld, a 22-year-old history graduate of University College London, who in March this year…

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